[Lxc-users] Upgrade distribution

Papp Tamas tompos at martos.bme.hu
Thu Mar 8 07:27:16 UTC 2012


On 03/07/2012 07:18 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> It's "possible" but I wouldn't recommend it until 12.04.
>
> In my experience upgrading will at least require you to umount
> /lib/init/fstab and tty[1234] and console in /dev, otherwise udev,
> mountall and a few others will fail to upgrade.

I tried it multiple time, lucid -> ... -> oneiric was almost OK, but of 
course I made some fixes by hand.

> We fixed all this in 12.04 so that a 12.04 to 12.10 upgrade will work
> just fine, sadly these required substantial changes to upstart,
> mountall, udev and lxc itself that are too risky to backport to older
> releases.

Actually udev update is still not working with 12.04 when new package 
arrives.


tamas




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